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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House majority whip Scalise acknowledges speaking at white nationalist event in 2002  —  Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white nationalist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002 …
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Washington Post:
House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white nationalists in 2002  —  Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white-supremacist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002, thrusting a racial controversy …
Steve Scalise / NOLA River:
‘I detest any kind of hate group’  —  Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise said he doesn't support “any of the things I read about” a white supremacist group that organized an event at which Scalise appeared in 2002.  —  In an exclusive interview Monday with NOLA.com |
Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Majority Whip Steve Scalise Struggles To Distance Himself From David Duke
Discussion: Mediaite
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Report: GOP Whip Spoke At White Nationalist Meeting In 2002
Discussion: Booman Tribune
New York Times:   Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana Acknowledges Addressing Racist Group in 2002
Politico:   Steve Scalise's office: Likely he spoke to white supremacist group
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
No. 3 House Republican leader spoke to white supremacist group
Discussion: Washington Post
The Huffington Post:
New Republican Whip Allegedly Addressed Supremacist Group in 2002
Discussion: Roll Call and Washington Monthly
Lamar White, Jr / cenlamar.com:
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Was Reportedly an Honored Guest at 2002 International White Supremacist Convention
Dan Friedman / NY Daily News:
Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress days after pleading guilty: sources  —  EXCLUSIVE: The Staten Island Republican, who won reelection in the fall, has decided to vacate his seat after speaking with Rep. John Boehner.  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign …
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Politico:
Michael Grimm resignation expected soon  —  New York GOP Rep. Michael Grimm — who pleaded guilty to a felony tax charge last week — is expected to resign from Congress this week, possibly as early as Tuesday, Republican sources said.  —  Grimm talked to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday, the sources said.
Discussion: Daily Kos and ABC News
ABC News:
AirAsia: Bodies, Debris Found in Search for Missing Jet  —  Wreckage spotted floating in Indonesian waters today is connected to the missing AirAsia jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea Sunday with 162 people aboard, according to the airline.  —  “AirAsia Indonesia regrets to inform …
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Dave Barry / Washington Post:
THERE'S JUST NO EXPLAINING 2014  —  It was a year of mysteries.
Discussion: Ordinary Times and Gawker
abc7.com:
Autopsy reveals Ezell Ford was shot in arm, back, abdomen  —  An autopsy report, released on Monday, revealed Ezell Ford was shot three times: in the right arm, right back and right abdomen.  —  The report was made public more than four months after Ford, 25, was fatally shot by LAPD officers …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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New York Times:
Police Respect Squandered in Attacks on de Blasio  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent weeks expressing his respect and admiration for the New York Police Department, while calling for unity in these difficult days, but the message doesn't seem to be sinking in.
Discussion: Gothamist and The Huffington Post
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
FBI briefed on alternate Sony hack theory  —  FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator — another example of the continuing whodunit blame game around the devastating attack.
Discussion: Lawfare and Firedoglake
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton doesn't need to win the white working class  —  Few questions in American political debate recur with the regularity of this one: Can Democrats win the white working class?  —  As soon as it's time to start contemplating the next election, commentators begin to ask this question …
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Obama Went on the War Path in 2014 Not Just for His Legacy, But Hillary's Too
Discussion: US News and NPR
New York Times:
U.S. Said to Investigate Sheldon Silver, New York Assembly Speaker, Over Payments  —  Federal authorities are investigating substantial payments made to the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, by a small law firm that seeks real estate tax reductions for commercial and residential properties …
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / The Intercept:
Exclusive: Jay, Key Witness from ‘Serial’ Tells His Story for First Time, Part 1  —  On Jan. 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old high school student from Baltimore, went missing.  About a month later, police uncovered her body in a nearby park; an autopsy would later find that she was choked to death.
Politico:
2015, the year the GOP strikes back at Obama food policies  —  The Obama administration is becoming increasingly involved in what Americans put on their dinner plates and in their cereal bowls, from requiring school children to be served fruit to eliminating trans fats in doughnuts.
Allie Grasgreen / Politico:
Colleges: Game plan set for student, faculty travel to Ebola-affected regions  —  It's the most wonderful time of the year on college campuses, as finals conclude and students and faculty flock home for the holidays.  But when their destination involves Ebola-stricken nations, things get a little more complicated.
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Testing under fire  —  Republicans may consider slashing the number of federally required tests.  —  Republicans on the Hill are finding unusual common ground with teachers unions about an overthrow of the annual testing mandate embedded in No Child Left Behind.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Jeb Bush exits another corporate board  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will step down from the board of directors at timber company Rayonier Inc., in yet another sign that he intends to run for president in 2016.  —  In a Securities and Exchange Commission report filed on Monday and first spotted …
 
 
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